Magazine of Zoology and Botany, Volume 2Prideaux John Selby, William Jardine W.H. Lizars, 1838 - Botany |
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alpibus supra alpina animal antennæ appears araneus Belfast Bernard de Jussieu birds body botanist botany British Cairnlough calyx caule characters colour common conchology considered copiose Cypris Drap eagle elytra extremity falcon Falconida feet fieldfare filaments FITZ Flora folia foliis fresh water Fünelen Gaud Gemmi supra Schwarrenbach genera genus glareosis graminosis Gray habits hairs head Hist incisors Inhabits insects interfemoral membrane Jussieu Kandersteg Koch larvæ length Linn Linnæus margin membrane memoir moles glaciales Mull Muller Museum Natural History naturalists nearly nest notice observed omnino paper peregrine falcon plants Plate polype posterior proboscis prope Raehills Rchb remarks rocks Scotophilus scutellum seen sepals shell short species specimens St Nicholas Stalden Sternum supra Tæsch supra Zermatt tail tentacula Testudo tion Turt Varen variety viam inter wings young Zermatt Zoology
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Page 338 - Yet soon he heal'd ; for spirits, that live throughout Vital in every part, not as frail man, In entrails, heart or head, liver or reins, Cannot but by annihilating die ; Nor, in their liquid texture mortal wound Receive, no more than can the fluid air...
Page 437 - Feb.1838. c lu as a botanist, and felt myself rewarded : a gigantic leaf from five to six feet in diameter, salver-shaped, with a broad rim; of a light green above, and a vivid crimson below, resting upon the water. Quite in character with the wonderful leaf was the luxuriant flower, consisting of many hundred petals, passing in alternate tints from pure white to rose and pink. The smooth water was covered with the blossoms, and as I rowed from one to the other I always observed something new to...
Page 247 - But what in oddness can be more sublime Than Sloane, the foremost toyman of his time ? His nice ambition lies in curious fancies, His daughter's portion a rich shell...
Page 438 - ... the calyx, with its hundred petals. When it first opens, it is white, with pink in the middle, which spreads over the whole flower the more it advances in age, and it is generally found the next day altogether of a pink colour ; as if to enhance its beauty it is sw-eet scented.
Page 437 - It was on the first of January this year, while contending with the difficulties Nature imposed in different forms to our progress up the river Berbice, that we arrived at a point where the river expanded, and formed a currentless basin ; some object on the southern extremity of this basin attracted my attention ; it was impossible to form any idea...
Page 437 - The leaf on its upper surface is of a bright green ; in form almost orbicular, except that on one side it is slightly bent in ; its diameter measured from five to six feet ; around the whole margin extended a rim, from...
Page 337 - When a piece is cut out of the body, the wound speedily heals, and, as if excited by the stimulus of the knife, young polyps sprout from the wound more abundantly, and 'in preference to unscarred parts ; when a polyp is introduced by the tail into another...
Page 333 - I have sometimes," says Baker, " forced a worm from a polype the instant it has been bitten (at the expense of breaking off the polype's arms), and have always observed it to die very soon afterwards, without one single instance of recovery.
Page 277 - Sur des chenilles qui ont vécu dans les intestins de l'homme, qui y ont subi leur mue et qui en ont été expulsées vivantes par l'estomac.
Page 438 - The divisions of the ribs and bands are visible on the upper surface of the leaf, by which it appears areolated. The young leaf is convolute and expands but slowly. The prickly stem ascends with the young leaf till it has reached the surface ; by the time it is developed, its own weight depresses the stem, and it floats on the water. The stalk of the flower is an inch thick near the calyx, and is studded with sharp elastic prickles, about three-quarters of an inch in length.